Paula Hooper, officer in charge, scans a package for customer John Leatherbury of Eden at the United States Post office in Eden on Friday morning.

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Some rural post offices are moving to reduced operating hours, and impacted customers on the Lower Shore can have their say about potential service options at U.S. Postal Service community meetings that start in October.

Meeting notifications and survey questions began arriving by mail this week to customers in some local areas to be impacted, post office workers confirmed Thursday.

"I made copies and will put them in mailboxes today," said Donna Evans, officer in charge at the Ewell Post Office on Somerset County's offshore Smith Island. ...